(Mexican-American) Freshman Laura Ponce shows off her Mexican pride as she wears a Mexican flag over her shoulders and wears facepaint Wednesday as she waits for school to get out at Live Oak
Posted on 05/06/2010 8:01:51 AM PDT by PhxRising
NBC Bay Area On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag. But Cinco de Mayo is not any typical day especially on a campus with a large Mexican American student population.
Galli says he and his friends were sitting at a table during brunch break when the vice principal asked two of the boys to remove American flag bandannas that they wearing on their heads and for the others to turn their American flag T-shirts inside out. When they refused, the boys were ordered to go to the principal's office.
"They said we could wear it on any other day," Daniel Galli said, "but today is sensitive to Mexican-Americans because it's supposed to be their holiday so we were not allowed to wear it today."
The boys said the administrators called their T-shirts "incendiary" that would lead to fights on campus.
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It sickens me how whenever the La Raza Youth do their flag waving and marches, we don't have any American youth with the balls to take them on, "hate crime" laws be damned.
Wear that on CDM and you are liable to get lynched...in America!
Mr. Glock mod 20 says, “No way!”
Kwanzaa de Mayo?
Morgan Hill Unified School District
15600 Concord Circle
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
408-201-6000
Be advised, the female that helped me, was in total agreement that this was a national outrage and embarrassment...
I hope everyone will take a minute and call now!
Morgan Hill Unified School District 15600 Concord Circle
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
408-201-6000
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Morgan Hill Unified School District said it did not agree with the school’s actions.
“In an attempt to foster a spirit of cultural awareness and maintain a safe and supportive school environment, the Live Oak High School administration took certain actions earlier today,” the statement read. “The district does not concur with the Live Oak High School administration’s interpretation of either board or district policy related to these actions.”
Attempts to reach school officials early Thursday were not successful. A secretary told the Morgan Hill Times that Boden and Rodriguez were unavailable for comment on Wednesday.
Take your smart little *ss to Mexico and show your 'national pride' there, honey!
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This school and the school district are the laughing stock of the nation for the moment. An FR Laughing Stock award should be given to them!
LOL!
To all:
You can get through at this number.
Be advised, the female that helped me, was in total agreement that this was a national outrage and embarrassment...
I hope everyone will take a minute and call now!
Morgan Hill Unified School District 15600 Concord Circle
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
408-201-6000
(Mexican-American) Freshman Laura Ponce shows off her Mexican pride as she wears a Mexican flag over her shoulders and wears facepaint Wednesday as she waits for school to get out at Live Oak
Not true.
Be advised, the female that helped me, was in total agreement that this was a national outrage and embarrassment...
I hope everyone will take a minute and call now!
Morgan Hill Unified School District 15600 Concord Circle
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
408-201-6000
Would this clown force the students to do the same on St. Patrick’s Day?
These American students are going to an American school paid for by American tax dollars.
Time to choose, folks.
Awwwww. How wishy-washy of them. Why don't you discipline the person(s) that mis-interpreted your policy? Seems to me that this statement is nothing short of a CYA statement from a group that secretly agrees with the principal. Heck, I'd venture to guess that there was "an agreement" between the School board and the HS to do exactly what happened, figuring they'd never get caught.
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